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Sunday, February 19, 2012

CHINA THEN & NOW: XI JINPING & CAVE HOUSES IN SHAANXI

CAVE HOUSES IN SHAANXI
&
THE MAKING OF
A CHINESE PRESIDENT

A CAVE HOUSE IN YAN'AN
SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA 1981


A CAVE HOUSE NEAR XI'AN
SHAANXI PROVINCE, CHINA 1981
Notice that the house is built below the level of the fields

In all the hoopla surrounding the visit to the U.S. last week of Chinese Vice-President (and President-Select, President-Presumptive) Xi Jinping, the story of the seven years he spent living in a cave house in Shaanxi was highlighted again and again.

The cave house in which Mao Zedong lived in Yan'an, in Shaanxi province, is to be found here.

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